This Is Northern Soul! The Motown Sound, Vol. 1 [Import]

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2-CD set featuring magical names that should proudly stand alongside the million-sellers because together they were instrumental in building the world's most successful black music company, whose importance has spanned almost four decades. Artists include

This Is Northern Soul! The Motown Sound, Vol. 1,Various Artists,Universal Int'l,Pop,R&B,Soul/R & B Collections,V/a Compilations

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Average customer rating: ATTENTION !! ALL MOTOWN ADDICTS Good value 2CD

This Is Northern Soul! The Motown Sound, Vol. 1 Various Artists Manufacturer: Umvd Import ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | R&B | Styles | Music General | Soul | R&B | Styles | Music Soul | Compilations | R&B | Styles | Music R&B | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: A Treasury of Northern Soul Ultimate Northern Soul: 22 Classic & Rare Floorshakers! After Hours V.2: More Northern Soul Masters Northern Soul Connoisseurs Mojo Chess Northern Soul ASIN: B00007MBZA Release Date: 2005-05-09

Tracks:

1. Think It Over
2. Do I Love You (Indeed I Do)
3. This Love Starved Heart Of Mine
4. Goodbye Cruel World
5. Share A Little Love With Me (Somebody)
6. Forever In My Heart Aka Come On Back To Me Baby
7. I'm Still Loving You
8. He's All I Got
9. Just Walk In My Shoes
10. Keep On Lovin' Me
11. Crying In The Night
12. You Hit Me (Where It Hurt Me)
13. (Like A )Nightmare
14. Thrill A Moment
15. I'll Keep Holding On
16. Truly Yours
17. When I'm Gone
18. Just A Little Misunderstanding
19. No One Could Ever Love You More
20. You Ain't Saying Nothing New
21. Goodnight Irene
22. I Gotta Find A Way (To Get You Back)
23. What More Could A Boy Ask For
24. It's Too Late For You And Me
25. Suspicion
26. Your Love Can Save Me
27. Just Ain't Enough Love
28. Lonely, Lonely Girl Am I
29. Lonely Boy
30. Baby Come Home To Me
31. I Gotta Let You Go
32. When I Fell The Need Aka It's My Baby
33. For The Love Of Mike
34. Baby Hit & Run
35. Tune Up
36. My Weakness Is You
37. One Way Out
38. I Ain't Going Nowhere
39. Tell Me It's Just A Rumour Baby
40. Two Can Have A Party
41. My Smile Is Just A Frown Turned Upside Down
42. Oh I've Been Blessed
43. I'll Always Love You
44. These Things Will Keep Me Loving You
45. This Old Heart Of Mine (Is Weak For You)
46. Bird In The Hand (Is Worth Two In The Bush)
47. Sweet Thing
48. Lonely Lover

Album Description

2-CD set featuring magical names that should proudly stand alongside the million-sellers because together they were instrumental in building the world's most successful black music company, whose importance has spanned almost four decades. Artists include

Customer Reviews:

ATTENTION !! ALL MOTOWN ADDICTS .......2007-01-16

THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST COLLECTIONS TO COME OUT OF THE MOTOWN VAULTS IN A LONG TIME. IT WAS ACTUALLY RELEASED ON THE DEBUTAUNT LABEL IN THE 90's.
I WENT AHEAD AND BOUGHT IT ON MY OF MY TRIPS TO N.Y.C.
I DID CARTWHEELS OUT OF THAT STORE !! HOWEVER I WAS A LITTLE DISAPPOINTED THAT SOME OF THE TRACKS WERE OF POOR SOUND QUALITY.

THAT'S WHY I THINK THIS RE-RELEASE IS SUPERB, EVERY TRACK SOUNDS EXCELLENT !! RIGHT FROM THE ORIGINAL MASTER !!!!
YOU REALLY DON'T WANT TO MISS A CHANCE TO GRAB THIS ONE !!!

Good value 2CD.......2006-03-09

This attractively priced 2CD replaces two separately issued CDs that appeared on the D?butante label in 1997 and 1998. The title of this reissue is slightly confusing as the original releases were called This Is Northern Soul Volumes One and Two.

They were much heralded at the time as several of the items had never been officially released before, but were well known from the clubs, where scratchy acetates and treasured bootlegs had been played to Northern Soul fans. While the sound quality was obviously better on the CD releases, and the general availability much welcomed, some of the tracks had clearly been transferred from vinyl pressings and some of them were in reprocessed fake stereo.

For this reissue on the Motown label, through the Universal Music Group, only the original Detroit analogue masters have been used for the digital remastering. Reprocessed stereo has been quite rightly eliminated and there is thankfully no vinyl surface noise, representing a significant improvement for most of the tracks. The Temptations' previously unreleased Forever In My Heart was included in the speeded-up master used in the clubs before and is now restored to the proper speed, as found on their Lost And Found CD, and The Andante's (Like A) Nightmare, which had surfaced briefly as a V.I.P. single in 1964, is ten second longer than before (but check out the extended stereo remix on The Motown Box). Carolyn Crawford's lovely single, written and produced by Smokey Robinson, also gains a couple of seconds and is now cleaner sounding. Frank Wilson's Do I Love You (Indeed Do) was in a great alternative stereo mix with a slightly different vocal to the familiar single, and remains so on this.

Mostly, however, the remastering and cleaning up has left the tracks slightly shorter than before. Brenda Holloway's previously unreleased Lonely Boy had been allowed to run until only the funky bass line was left in the mix - now it fades a full ten seconds earlier. Her other two tracks Think It Over and When I'm Gone both still appear in mono mixes in preference to the stereo versions on the subsequently released Motown Anthology set; this is also the case with the three Kim Weston tracks. Conversely, the Velvelettes' Lonely Lonely Girl Am I and Bird In The Hand are in stereo mixes that do not appear on their Motown Anthology double CD. The Detroit Spinners' What More Could A Boy Ask For now clocks in at 2.29 whereas before it was 3.08. The Isley Brothers' Tell Me It's Just A Rumour Baby, recorded in 1966, is now a mono mix lasting 3.08 whereas before it was in stereo and of 2.50 duration.

The Marvelettes' classic I'll Keep Holding On, with a lead vocal from the great Wanda Rogers, is also the well-known original mono mix, though I believe a stereo version has been released somewhere. The Gladys Knight track No One Could Love You More dates from 1967, but was extracted from her 1971 album Standing Ovation for a UK B-side a couple of years later. She can sing just about anybody under the table and all her three tracks are wonderful. Junior Walker's I Ain't Going Nowhere was another popular UK B-side. The oldest recording in the collection is Linda Griner's Goodbye Cruel Love, recorded in June 1962 and a single for Motown in 1963.

Virgil Henry's You Ain't Sayin' Nothing New may be the most recent, but is a bit of an oddity, having been originally released for Jerry Ross's Colossus label as a flipside (Colossus 115), and the same single coupling appeared on Tamla 54212F in 1971, possibly remixed, while Jerry Ross was briefly Berry Gordy's New York A&R man. The mastertape was in less than perfect condition on the 1997 release and is not improved here. Some collectors believe it to have been recorded in New York with local musicians as early as 1966 and this is the publication date given here, though it sounds more recent. The Temptations' I Gotta Find A Way comes from their Norman Whitfield-produced Cloud Nine album of 1969 but had been in the can since October 1963, so dating a track can be problematic.

As always, the music is of the highest order and fully recommended, and only the more avid collector, of which there are many, will be concerned with the specifics detailed above, which are not annotated in the sleeve notes.

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This Is Northern Soul! The Motown Sound, Vol. 1 Various Artists Manufacturer: Universal/Polygram ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | R&B | Styles | Music General | Soul | R&B | Styles | Music R&B | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B000008354

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